Generation Hope #9 - "Better"

[laughing_tree]

When the stories [about gay teen suicide] started to break, the first place I heard about it was actually from Fraction. We'd just passed the baton, and he said "If I was still writing the X-Men…". I read the news and could only agree. It's not the type of story that fits in any other major superhero book. It's simply not what those books are about. But the X-Men? X-Men is a book about mutants, used as a metaphor about prejudice. And of the X-Men books, Generation Hope is fundamentally about new mutants trying to survive dealing with the fact they're mutants. With the metaphor in place, you can not just do a story about it – I dare say you should tell a story about it. In a real way, it's the sort of story Generation Hope exists to tell. If we can't tell this story and tell it as well as we can, the book may as well not exist. -- Kieron Gillen

Content warning: Suicide

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Pearl III #2

[cyberghostface]

 

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"Who Is The Ant-Man? What Is The Ant-Man? Why Is The Ant-Man?"

[numeronone]

"It's the most common answer -- I'm a fan. I've been a fan of the character from way back before I even got work at Marvel. But when I say a fan of the character, I have to qualify with which Ant-Man I'm talking about and when. I mean Hank Pym and a particular '60s-era Hank Pym from those old black-and-white Essentials collections that printed 500 pages of old comics in these big black-and-white phonebooks. Hank had a run of stories that were wonderful one-offs having all kinds of fun with the concept of shrinking down and commanding ants. They felt much lighter and more whimsical than other stories of the era -- they were almost camp."

- Al Ewing

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Avengers Assemble #14AU

[laughing_tree]

I guess my mantra when writing the Avengers is the "there came a day" speech -- "there came a day when Earth's Mightiest Heroes banded together to fight a foe no single hero could withstand." That and their battle cry being "assemble" -- it writes itself. It's a team built around the virtues of community and collective action. The Avengers are the slap in the face to the "there is no society", "I got mine" ethos -- they're not an exclusive club of the biggest and toughest and most popular, they're an organization grouping together to fight the threats to the ordinary citizen that they are best equipped to fight. -- Al Ewing

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